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Biscuits & Cookies

This ginger shortbread is a must. It is adapted (very slightly) from Mary Berry’s Stem Ginger Shortbread recipe which is one of my favourite Mary recipes! The only change I made was to add a little more stem ginger, because I LOVE the stuff. Thank you Mary for such a fab recipe! …

I had intended to make a fridge cake this morning. My niece had requested one as it is her new favourite but somewhere along the way the fridge cake has morphed into rocky road cake. Who knew that there was such debate going on in the online recipe world as to what constitutes fridge cake, rocky road cake or tiffin. …

I adore Hot Cross Buns! The shops are full of them at the moment signifying that the time of the year when I eat way too much chocolate is almost upon us. This year, I have decided not to buy shop brought buns but to make my own. Although, shop brought Hot Cross Buns are generally quite good, you just can’t quite beat home made. …

I must admit I wasn’t too excited to learn that the brownies that my friend made me last month contained stout! I couldn’t understand what a cup of strong dark beer would add to a brownie. But never one to turn down the chance to try a new food, I ate one and I was really impressed. …

These chocolate dipped viennese biscuits are great both piped into fingers or swirled into bigger zigzag shapes. They can be dipped in dark, milk or white chocolate but the slightly sharp taste of dark chocolate is my favorite as it works well with the sweet, buttery flavor of the crumbly biscuit….

Lebkuchen is a German cookie, a soft gingerbread that is usually baked around Christmas time. This one is gingery, peppery and cinnamony and is topped with a sweet glaze and is drizzled with dark chocolate. In my pursuit of the perfect Lebkuchen, and I’ve baked and eaten quite a few over the last week or two, I discovered that the addition of a little cocoa powder and a little black pepper really made the Lebkuchen special without overpowering the gingerbread flavours….

I wonder if anybody reading this knows why this delicious shortbread biscuit, caramel and chocolate is called Millionaire’s shortbread? Searching the internet to find out I came away none the wiser. Some of the suggestions, however, seem quite apt:…

So in Britain we call these small mounds of yumminess either rock buns or rock cakes depending on which part of the country you come from. I’m nervous about calling them rock buns as I think that the word ‘buns’ has a totally different connotation for those of you in the USA …. sooooo rock cakes is what they’ll be called for the purpose of this post!…